New A1 Firmware Released

[ikir]

Leuven, Belgium - 3. March, 2005

Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new AmigaOne firmware update for registered customers of AmigaOS 4.0. New features in this release include

- Improvements in the x86 BIOS emulator
- Reworked IDE/ATA-Code with better support of multiple IDE controllers
- Preliminary support for the Catweasel Mark IV controller by Individual Computers
- Ability to choose graphics card for booting
- Multiple bugs fixed, including a wrong IRQ assignment for AGP graphics cards (Vertical Blanking interrupts should now function correctly)

The update can be downloaded from the file area on Hyperion Entertainment's website.


Download from
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz/

More informations (in the commets) on AW.net
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2138%3Ca%20class=

It is needed by Warp3D.

[Matt_H]

Hooray! I'll install it next weekend when I'm near my A1.

Do the Catweasel improvements solve the instability problems under OS4? Or is that an Exec issue?

Thanks, developers!

[Rogue]

That was a kernel issue. The next OS4 update will cure that.

[Matt_H]

Cool. Thanks for the info.

[weirdami]

Since when did Amiga get IRQ's? Did we take a step backward?  :nervous:

[EntilZha]

IRQ is just an "interrupt request". On the old Amiga hardware, they used to be called just "Interrupts". This is neither a step forward or backward, it's just another name.

Replace the text with "including a wrong interrupt assignment for AGP cards" if you like that better...

[Rogue]

Since when did Amiga get IRQ's? Did we take a step backward?

On the Zorro bus, there where only two IRQ lines. Now we have PCI and this has four IRQ lines. In how far this would be a step backwards is strictly beyond me - all those horror stories you might have heard about IRQ conflicts are based on bad drivers that do not check correctly if the interrupt they got is really their own or someone else on their IRQ.

The classic Zorro bus had much more potential for such problems so the drivers are prepared for that.

[Zorro]

@ Rogue

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The classic Zorro bus had much more potential for such problems...
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Hey ! I am the Wonderful Zorro and have MUCH MORE potential for ANY problems !

  :-D

[Rogue]

Hey ! I am the Wonderful Zorro and have MUCH MORE potential for ANY problems !

Now, don't tell me you want to show me your IRQ's :-)

[Zorro]

Now, don't tell me you want to show me your IRQ's

Doh !!!

 :lol: